When Bruce Springsteen called his first album Greetings from Asbury Park; he introduced a generation of fans to a fallen seaside resort town that came to represent working-class American life. Starting with the towns founding as a religious promised land; music journalist and poet Daniel Wolff plots a course through Asbury Parks entwined social and musical history; in a story that captures all the allure and heartbreak of the American dream.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Keys have changed! Otherwise. great collection.By Timothy C. LaughrinThis is a great book BUT - 49 songs in this printing are in a different key than in the copy I bought in 2012!!We just bought a second copy for the jazz quartet I play in. Found out that the keys of some songs differed. Fortunately. this occurred in rehearsal. not in a gig.Note: the 2 books have EXACTLY the same identification numbers (ISBN. etc). The only way to tell them apart is the list price printed on the back cover.6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Great Idea. Poor ExecutrionBy jayI wanted a digital version of The Real Book on my iPad. I was going to go the route of PDF when I saw this and without thinking hit the one-click purchase. Im happy to support this product. but its formatted horrendously. Songs are split between pages making it a chore to play through a song since jazz form almost always entails several repeats. Even when resizing the text. the songs seem bound to the strange layout theyre in. Please. please. please. fix this issue!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Jazz standards with lyricsBy Stuart D. GathmanA mixture of songs from Vol 1 and Vol 2 instrumental. The key signatures for high voice are different from the instrumental books. But thats not supposed to be a problem for a jazz musician - right? If it is. practice both versions. So many of the lyrics display mentally ill levels of limerence (see wikipedia article) - but that is typical for jazz. ("Ill forget you. I *will*....Ill live a lush life in some small dive and there Ill rot with the rest of those whose lives are lonely too.") The Rodgers and Hammerstein numbers are usually much more uplifting.
